Publishing with Purpose
Textbooks
Education is at the heart of our mission to make a difference. Our goal is to support students’ learning with materials that foster understanding, confidence and skills.
We have a diverse and growing programme of textbooks and learning resources that are designed for Social Science courses at university and college level. We take pride in publishing quality content at affordable prices, and we cater to a wide range of learning styles in print and digital formats.
All of our textbooks are available on e-inspection (order here, or use the links on the book pages).
Lecturers are welcome to request inspection copies for potential recommendation on their reading lists and for student and library purchase. In return, we just ask for feedback on the books’ suitability for teaching purposes, in order to help us develop our publishing. You can submit your feedback using our short survey here.
Take a look at our textbooks below or browse by subject.
In line with our commitment to sustainable practice and environmental responsibility, all our textbooks are available primarily on digital inspection for lecturers. A select number of our titles are available on print inspection. Please email bup-textbooks@bristol.ac.uk to enquire.
Already received your inspection copy?
We would value your feedback on your requested title(s) in order to improve our services. Please fill in our short survey here.
If you have any queries, or if you need to order a print inspection copy due to a sight or physical impairment, please email bup-textbooks@bristol.ac.uk.
*A limit of 3 inspection copies may be requested at any one time. A limit of 8 inspection copies may be supplied per person per year.
Plural Policing
Theory and Practice
This book considers the rise of Plural Policing in England and Wales over the past decade or so. It critically analyses this approach and contains examples of practice, both nationally and internationally.

£20.99£10.49 Add to basket£70.00£35.00 Add to basket£17.99£8.99 Add to basket£17.99£8.99
Migration and Development
Theory and Empirical Research
Migration and development are two key phenomena within our globalised world and vast topics of major policy relevance, yet their interactions are rarely synthesised. This book uses the latest empirical research and theoretical debate to examine the interactions between the two.

Social work
Making a difference
This book explores what social work is. Structured around the framework of the National Occupational Standards for social work, the book examines how social work can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities, and argues that to really make a difference it is necessary to think outside the box.

£19.99£9.99 Add to basket£65.00£32.50 Add to basket£19.99£9.99£19.99£9.99 Add to basket
Youth justice in practice
Making a difference
This book examines youth justice in a UK and international context, highlighting the challenge facing all jurisdictions in balancing welfare and justice. It explores the impact of political ideas and influences on the structural and practical challenges of delivering youth justice.

£19.99£9.99 Add to basket£65.00£32.50 Add to basket£19.99£9.99
Social work and multi-agency working
Making a difference
The book is unique in drawing together contributors from a range of different disciplines to consider the issues and challenges involved for social work practice in multi agency working.

£19.99£9.99 Add to basket£65.00£32.50 Add to basket£19.99£9.99
Religion, belief and social work
Making a difference
This book examines how religion and related beliefs have varied impacts on the needs and perceptions of practitioners, service users, and the support networks available to them.

£19.99£9.99 Add to basket£19.99£9.99 Add to basket£19.99£9.99
Imagining Society
The Case for Sociology
Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline and rethinks and re-imagines what a critically committed, politically engaged and publicly relevant sociology should look like in the 21st century.

£19.99£9.99 Add to basket£75.00£37.50 Add to basket£19.99£9.99 Add to basket
Understanding Brexit
A Concise Introduction

£19.99£9.99 Add to basket£60.00£30.00 Add to basket£19.99£9.99 Add to basket£19.99£9.99
Direct Payments and Personal Budgets
Putting Personalisation into Practice
This third edition of the leading textbook on personalisation considers key policy changes since 2009 and new research into the extension and outcomes of personal budgets. It is essential reading for students, practitioners and policy makers in social work and community care services.

£20.99£10.49 Add to basket£70.00£35.00 Add to basket£20.99£10.49 Add to basket£20.99£10.49
The idea of poverty
Making a committed argument for a participative, inclusive understanding of the term, Paul Spicker examines views about what poverty is and what should be done about it.

£20.99£10.49 Add to basket
Miscarriages of Justice
Causes, Consequences and Remedies
It is crucial for criminal justice practitioners to understand miscarriages of justice. This text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of miscarriages of justice, highlighting difficulties in defining them, examining their dimensions, forms, scale and impact and exploring key cases and their causes.

£20.99£10.49 Add to basket£70.00£35.00 Add to basket£20.99£10.49 Add to basket£20.99£10.49
Residential Child Care in Practice
Making a Difference
This highly practical book, written by experienced practitioners and academics, is a core text about the practice of residential childcare, where workers and children share a common lifespace.

£21.99£10.99 Add to basket£75.00£37.50 Add to basket£21.99£10.99 Add to basket£21.99£10.99